Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Feb 1, 2012, 5:16 pm
Motorola has released a software update to their WiNG 4.x and 3.x software platforms for both the RFS7000 and WS5100 Wireless LAN Switches. RFS7000 v4.4.0.0-034R WS5100 v3.3.4.0-002R I would recommend you review the release notes for v4.4.0.0-034R and v3.3.4.0-002R for all the details. There were
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jan 30, 2012, 5:22 pm
Avaya has released software v7.1.3.0 for the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600/8800. This release has a few new features and resolves a significant number of  software bugs. New Features; 8812XL SPF+ I/O Module SPBM IEEE 802.1aq standards compliance VLACP flag detection and damping 8895 SF/CPU compact
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jan 25, 2012, 11:28 pm
I’ve been a big Battlefield fan ever since Battlefield 1942 and the mod Desert Combat. I really enjoyed Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142, so I was expecting a lot from Battlefield 3 when it was released late last year. While the graphics and basic game play are truly amazing the team work aspect...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jan 17, 2012, 10:46 pm
I know this is short notice but this site and the discussion forums will not be available on January 18th between 8AM and 8PM (GMT -5). We will be participating in the online protest to stop the Internet censorship bills, SOPA & PIPA. We’ll be joining some big name Internet sites such as Wikipedia...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jan 15, 2012, 12:37 pm
There’s been a lot of discussion lately around connecting Avaya (legacy Nortel) IP phones with third-party SIP capable call servers. I’ve personally toyed with Asterisk on a number of occasions and have always been impressed so I recently setup an Asterisk Now installation
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jan 14, 2012, 10:57 am
Unless you’ve been hiding in a hole the last few months you’ve probably already heard about the controversy around SOPA/PIPA (Stop Online Piracy Act/ Protect IP Act). I had planned on writing something technical this morning but after reading Jane Well’s post over on WordPress.org I thought it...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jan 5, 2012, 12:36 am
I was only recently was made aware of a Technology Forum that Avaya will be holding on February 6 – 9 in Orlando, Florida. I’m told that the event will focus heavily on network technologies. I’ve looked over the breakout sessions and they are very impressive… now if I can just convince the b...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jan 2, 2012, 3:21 pm
Avaya has released software 6.2.4 for the Ethernet Routing Switch 5500/5600 series switches. There are a number of significant bug fixes included in this release, please refer to the release notes for all the details. If you have the opportunity to test 6.2.4 and would like to share your findings
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Dec 24, 2011, 11:54 am
I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Cheers!
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Dec 19, 2011, 10:37 am
Avaya has released software 5.6 for the Ethernet Routing Switch 4000 series switch. In combination with this software release Avaya is releasing six new switch models; Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 4550T-PWR+ Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 4526T-PWR+ Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 4850GTS Avaya
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Dec 14, 2011, 9:47 pm
Avaya has released SIP software release 4.3 for their 1100 and 1200 series IP deskphones. This software release is compatible with the following Call Server platforms; Avaya IP Office R8.0 (1220, 1230, 1120E, 1140E IP Deskphones only) Avaya CS1000 R7.0 and 7.5 Avaya CS2100 SE13 Avaya Aura®
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Dec 12, 2011, 1:37 pm
The server that hosts this site is now IPv6 ready and accessible. I’m not sure how many users are potentially using IPv6, but I was doing some research regarding securing an IP v6 allocation from ARIN (American Registry of Internet Numbers) and decided to enable IPv6 on my own personal server. I
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Dec 10, 2011, 1:26 pm
We’re still deploying Avaya’s Ethernet Routing Switch 8600s and now with 5.x software and above you need an Advanced License to run an IST/SMLT cluster. In the previous 3.x and 4.x software you didn’t need the Advanced License, just the Base License to run an IST/SMLT cluster. You’ll need a ...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Dec 6, 2011, 5:15 pm
Avaya has released UNIStim firmware 5.3 for their IP deskphones; 0621C8J for the 2007 IP deskphone 0623C8J, 0624C8J, 0625C8J, 0627C8J, 0626C8J for the 1110, 1120E, 1140E, 1150E and 1165E IP deskphones 062AC8J for the 1200 series IP deskphones As always I recommend you review the release notes for
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Oct 31, 2011, 4:37 pm
I’m home sick today with a nasty sinus infection, so I thought I would make a quick post about Linode. Last week (maybe two weeks ago now) I decided to give Linode a test drive by signing up for a Linode VPS 512. The increase in traffic to this site and the discussion forums has
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Oct 29, 2011, 11:20 pm
I woke up Saturday morning to the snow falling fast and furious here in Pennsylvania, just about 35 miles outside Philadelphia. It snowed and it snowed and it snowed all day long and the snow actually stuck the streets, the grass and the trees. The power went out and came back on multiple times thro...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Oct 18, 2011, 7:00 pm
I ran into an interesting oversight on my part today. We have a cluster of Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 8600s which are running dual 8692SFs w/Mezz and a combination E and R cards on 5.1.3.1 software. We’re growing the network (when are we not) and we’ve outgrown the two 8630GBRs we have in eac...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Oct 13, 2011, 11:52 pm
It’s that time of year again… where I review the overall success and cost of running this blog (and forums) and I post some general thoughts about the past year and try to solicit new ideas for the future. I’m totally amazed when I think that it’s been 4 years now since I started blogging
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Oct 11, 2011, 6:00 pm
Avaya has released software 6.1.7 for the Ethernet Routing Switch 5500/5600 series switches. As you may recall there were some serious issues with 6.1.6 software (still surprised the software wasn’t pulled by Avaya) which now appear to have been resolved in wi00879571. Thanks to @svl0r for bringin...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Oct 6, 2011, 11:00 pm
I recently contracted Lyme disease from either working around the house or training in Valley Forge Park. Unfortunately, I was on my back and in bed for almost an entire week and a half. I only went to the hospital (doctor’s office was closed that day) after running a fever for 5 days, that fact
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Oct 3, 2011, 6:00 pm
It was that time again for yet another upgrade to the old home desktop. I thought I had posted about my last upgrade but I can’t seem to find the post right now. In any case this time it was the impending release of Battlefield 3 that ultimately drove me to replace my aging Nvidia
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Sep 28, 2011, 11:00 pm
... , a TCL script which checks your Cisco Nexus 1000V configuration for any potential ... Port Channel configurations in Check 2. ############################################################################### ## COMPANY NAME: Cisco Systems Inc ## ## Cop...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Sep 24, 2011, 1:00 pm
The Nortel/Avaya 2245 Wireless Gateway is a essentially a protocol translator running Linux. The wireless gateway bridges between the Nortel/Avaya OEM’d SpectraLink wireless handsets (6120, 6140) which utilize SpectraLink Voice Priority (SVP) and the Avaya Call Server 1000, Signaling Server, and V...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Sep 22, 2011, 11:00 am
I had a very interesting problem this past week that I thought I would share and even seek comment on. We have quite a few vSphere ESX 4.0 and even vSphere ESX 4.1 hosts running in our network. This past week we installed 2 HP DL-380 servers with vSphere ESXi 4.1 Update 1 and we immediately noticed ...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Sep 22, 2011, 12:19 am
I recently stumbled across this little tidbit and thought I would share it with everyone here. Up until recently if you wanted to change the default VLAN (the data VLAN for the IP phones) on a port that had ADAC enabled you had to first disable ADAC, change the VLAN assignment of the port and then ...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Sep 20, 2011, 9:00 pm
Avaya has released version 10.05.100 of their VPN client (formerly Contivity client) that supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7. This single client supports the following operating systems (in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions); Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 The following feature...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Sep 17, 2011, 1:57 pm
Tweet I’m happy to announce that Thycotic Software has become a long-term supporting sponsor of this blog. You might have noticed their ad running at the top of the right column for the past few months (I feel like that guy screaming in the ad on a daily basis). You can find Thycotic on Twitter a...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Sep 7, 2011, 2:00 pm
Tweet I recently upgraded from the original Motorola Droid (December 2009) to a Motorola Droid 3 thanks to Verizon Wireless’s buy one get one free (BOGO) offer. That left me with the opportunity to experiment on my legacy Motorola Droid so I went in search of information on how to “root” it an...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Sep 6, 2011, 10:54 pm
Tweet It’s been quite a long time since I’ve worked on a Bay Networks Centillion 100 ATM switch but I came across one last week and then today I stumbled upon a few technical documents while cleaning up my home directory (I was scolded for having 6+ GB of data in my home directory). At on point...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Aug 29, 2011, 9:00 pm
I have an upcoming configuration change that involves a fairly complex BGP implementation. I’ll be setting up BGP between two Avaya ERS 8600s, two Cisco Nexus 7010s and two Cisco 3845 routers. A few months back I started looking at setting up a few physical routers in the lab to work through the a...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Aug 23, 2011, 1:37 pm
Avaya has released software 6.2.3 for the Ethernet Routing Switch 5500/5600 series switches. Here are some of the highlights from skimming the release notes; SLPP Guard The Switch Clustering implementations on the VSP9000, ERS8800/8600, and ERS5000 provide a Simple Loop Prevention Protocol (SLPP)...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Aug 11, 2011, 11:05 pm
I thought I would share command line (action I )came up with for having HP Open View NNM send email notifications based on the various SNMP traps received by the management station. blat.exe -server smtp.acme.org -to Alert@acme.org -cc HelpDesk@acme.org -html -subject "HPOV: UPS on battery ($snn)" ...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Aug 11, 2011, 1:45 am
I thought it was a joke at first, but no the power actually failed on a large portion of the CoLo4 Data Center in Dallas, TX today. Unfortunately the issue impacted a large number of CoLo4 customers including RIMU hosting who provides the server that I run both this blog and the discussion forums fr...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Aug 3, 2011, 7:00 pm
I’ve been working on configuring a new HP Open View Network Node Manager 9i installation on Windows 2008 this week, installing all the SNMP MIBS and migrating all the trapd.conf information from the old Network Node Manager 6.4 install. I came across an interesting error today trying to load all ...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jul 25, 2011, 11:01 pm
I was looking for something to blog about and @fryguy_pa posted about his difficulties with the Cisco Aironet 1200 series and configuring them for WPA2. I had the pleasure of recently reconfiguring 70+ Cisco Aironet 1200 series, mostly AIR-AP1231G-A-K9 running the latest software 12.3(8)JEC, in an ...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jul 22, 2011, 6:38 pm
Avaya has released UNIStim firmware 5.2 for their IP deskphones; 0621C8G for the 2007 IP deskphone 0623C8G, 0624C8G, 0625C8G, 0627C8G, 0626C8G for the 1110, 1120E, 1140E, 1150E and 1165E IP deskphones 062AC8G for the 1200 series IP deskphones As always I recommend you review the release notes for a...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jul 14, 2011, 9:04 pm
Tweet I recently helped stand up a pair of NetScaler MPX 7500 appliances as a public Internet facing front-end to large Citrix implementation. The goal was to utilize the NetScalers to provide basic Access Gateway functionality similar to the legacy Citrix Secure Gateway (CSG) and Citrix Access Gate...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jul 9, 2011, 1:55 pm
Tweet  Avaya has released SIP software release 4.1 Service Pack (4.01.15) for their 1100 and 1200 series IP deskphones. I’ll refer you to the release notes for the 4.1 Service Pack software release for the all the details. Let me also reference the 4.1 (4.01.13) software release notes since I nev...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jul 9, 2011, 1:24 pm
Tweet Avaya has released UNIStim firmware 5.1 for their IP deskphones; 0621C8D for the 2007 IP deskphone 0623C8D, 0624C8D, 0625C8D, 0627C8D, 0626C8D for the 1110, 1120E, 1140E, 1150E and 1165E IP deskphones 062AC8D for the 1200 series IP deskphones This release of firmware adds support for the foll...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jul 7, 2011, 10:56 am
Tweet Avaya has released version 10.05.012 of their VPN client that supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7. This single client supports the following operating systems (in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions); Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 This release appears to be primarily geared...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jul 1, 2011, 4:52 pm
TweetImage credit NetworkWorld I’ve been searching Google for the past few days waiting to see who one the Nortel IP asset sale,  and there was very little information until late yesterday when Nortel announced in a  press release that the sale and auction had been completed. “After a multi-...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jun 27, 2011, 12:02 am
Tweet It would seem that the end is very near now for what’s left of Nortel. The sale and auction of the Nortel’s vast patent portfolio is scheduled for today, Monday June 27, 2011. As you probably already heard Google submitted a $900 million “stalking horse” bid for the portfolio back in M...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jun 26, 2011, 9:21 am
Tweet This weekend I decided to install Service Pack 1 on my home Windows 7 x64 personal computer. As luck would have it the installation failed. The installation reported error 0x800f0a12 when I clicked on the details link. When I check the System Log I found the following event; Installation Fail...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jun 25, 2011, 7:00 am
Tweet I recently had a few issues with one of our MRV LX-4016T terminal servers and decided to upgrade the software. Unfortunately we don’t have a maintenance contract with MRV so I had to upload the (newer) software from a newly purchased LX-4008T to our TFTP server. I was then able to use that s...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jun 24, 2011, 6:00 am
Tweet There was yet another question recently on the discussion forums (I almost never have to search too hard for ideas to write about) concerning how to configure PIM-SM on the Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 series. While I’ve written in the past about DVMRP and PIM-SM on the Ethernet Routin...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jun 23, 2011, 7:00 am
Tweet Avaya has released software 6.2.2 for the Ethernet Routing Switch 5500/5600 series switches. Here are some of the highlights from skimming the release notes; VLACP Unidirectional Fault Detection with support for the DOWN and HOLD subtypes (previously implemented in the 6.1.6 software stream)...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jun 22, 2011, 6:00 am
Tweet A few weeks ago I got a tweet from a follower telling me that he had found someone stealing my blog posts. I went digging through Google and found the offender pretty quickly. I won’t name or link to the offender but let me read you their tag line, “I have been a network engineer for over ...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jun 21, 2011, 5:02 pm
Tweet There was a question recently on the discussion forums regarding the ability to run Spanning Tree Protocol (STP/RSTP/MSTP) over a MultiLink Trunk (MLT). You can most certainly run STP/RSTP/MSTP over a MLT interface. You can NOT run STP/RSTP/MSTP over a SMLT interface. I thought I would run th...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jun 18, 2011, 8:00 am
Tweet Avaya has released software v5.1.6.0 for the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600. This release has no new features but instead addresses a number of software bugs. Please refer to the release notes for all the details. There is one bug in partiular that I’ve personally seen; Broadcast and multicas...
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Michael M. posted an article on Michael McNamara - Jun 17, 2011, 4:11 pm
Tweet We utilize SecureLink Enterprise to provide remote access to our vendors that support some of our servers. It’s a great solution that’s very cost effective and has worked very well. We probably have 200+ servers with the SecureLink Gatekeeper software installed. The solution utilizes a Jav...
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